Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-06-03
TELECRA HIC.
Two Newspaper Reporters Killed on
a Railroad Bridge.
"A HORRIBLE TRAGEDY IN MARSHALL
COUNTY, ALABAMA.
Contemplating a Movement Upon
the Tariff Reduction.
TIE TALE OF ANNEXATION N
CANADA INCREASING.
A Mexican Governor imprisoned By Order
Of President Diaz.

Of President Diaz.
Two Reporters Killed On y Rafl.
road Bridge.
PHILADELPHIA, June 1.-Two news
paper reporters were instantly killed
shortly before 6 O'Clock Saturday
night by a Washington express train
at Germantown Junction, two miles
from the center of Philadelphia, on
the Pennsylvania railroad. They were
j. Ray Shepherd of the Record, and
E. J.. Isaacs of the Press. Shepperd
was 26 years old and Isaacs 20. They
had been assigned to report a school
children's festival at the State Fair
grounds, near the Germantown juno
ton station. On their return to the
station from the grounds they cut
across the lots and walked over an
iron trestle, over which the Pennsyl-
vania tracks cross the Reading rail-
road. Blynn, a Philadelphia Times
reporter, was 80 feet ahead of Shep-
perd and Isaacs. He got to the sta
ton platform safely, and saw the train
coming. He shouted to his compan-
ions, who were within 10 feet of the
end of the bridge. Young ~Isaacs, in
looking up, made a misstep and
tripped on one of the ties and fell.
Shepperd, who was directly behind
him, stumbled over I~saaes, and also
fell. As they struggled to their feet
the train, which was running at the
rate of 40 miles an hour, dashed upon
them. They were dragged for 100
feet before the train could be stopped,
and were frightfully mangled.
The Tariff Question.
PHILADELPHIA, June "a Washing
ton special to the Times says: Secre-
tary Fairchild is seriously contemplate
ing a movement, with the appreciation
of the President and his colleagues,
looking to the concentration OF the
Democrats in the House of Repre-
sentatives and the Senate upon the
tariff reduction. After the experience
of the past two Congresses, the Presi.
dent is convinced that but one course
remains open to the Democratic party,
and that is the formulation of a bill in
consultation with such men as Randall
and Carlisle and others representing
different positions of Democratic senti
ment on the subject for the purpose o.
bringing them together on some com.
mon ground of agreement. The Pres
ident has seen for some time that ar
issue will be made on the tariff and
has urged that it would be more
prepare a bill to be submitted to Con
gress as a measure of the Administers
ton policy, than to let the question
continue to play havoc as a firebrand
in the ranks of the party.
A Horrible Tragedy.
CHICAGO, June 2.-The Times Chat
tanooga, Tenn, special says: The
village Of Woodland, in Marshall
county, Ala, is in a furore of excite.
ment over a horrible tragedy. ]. H.
Emmons, a farmer, apparently about
crazed with grief, announced that his
wife had been bitten by a snake dur
ing the morning and was lying dead in
the canebrake. The discovery created
great excitement, and the.dead woman
was being shrouded for burial, when
it was found that her neck was
broken. This created suspicion, which
led to investigation, revealing the fact
that the woman had been given
strychnine, after which her neck was
broken. Further investigation led to
the crime being fastened on the dead
woman's husband, and but for his
fight he would have been lynched.
Mrs. Emmons was in an insane asy-
lum for a year and when she returned
home, cured, found that her husband
had taken up with a paramount. The
return of his wife worried Emmons
and accordingly he murdered her.
A Good Haul.
New York, June 2.-When DR.. De
Graft, of Union Hill, N. j., went into
his office yesterday morning he dis
covered that burglars had forced an
enterance into the house and riHed the
safe. The thieves carried away, the
doctor says, Adams Express Com
pany's bonds of the face value of So
700, some $1,000 in promissory notes,
and silverware and jewelry valued at
1900. The robbery is supposed to
have been the work of professionals.
but Ferdinand Kessler, who had been
in the doctors service as coachman,
was arrested on suspicion of having
some knowledge Of the robbery.
A Proposed Council.
New York, June "A Baltimore
dispatch to the Sun says that Cardinal
Gibbons will return in June, and will
probably be armed with power to con-
,ene a mighty council from the Of